A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.

Every poem is a momentary stay against the confusion of the world.

Two such as you with such a master speed, cannot be parted nor be swept away, from one another once you are agreed, that life is only life forevermore, together wing to wing and oar to oar.

There's nothing I'm afraid of like scared people.

Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting.

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.

In A Glass of Cider It seemed I was a mite of sediment That waited for the bottom to ferment So I could catch a bubble in ascent. I rode up on one till the bubble burst, And when that left me to sink back reversed I was no worse off than I was at first. I'd catch another bubble if I waited. The thing was to get now and then elated.